Beer Drinker's Appreciation Society--Always Open (Page 27)

Gretchen - In your field, you really do live a life of adventure!!  Sometimes I'm jealous, sometimes I'll take the safety of my desk job any day

This!  I feel like Austin Powers, I've lost my mojo!  I've been running fairly consistently, sort of stuck in an eternal Week 9 of a 12 week HM plan.  I ride my bike once every couple weeks, if that (though finally installing a bike rack on my car this week should help!).  I haven't started a Y membership because I looked at the pool schedule and it isn't great compared with my schedule.  I need a 10 miler or Half Marathon on a road course, timed with chip - but all we have until late October is a Beach HM and a couple Trail HMs.  

I have a race booked (Dopey Challenge 2020) (although I have no idea how I'm going to pay for it yet - its $630) but the training plan for that doesn't kick off until like August. Usually races are all the motivation I need to make sure I get my training done.  

I hear you...Fri/Sat/Sun in the mid-Atlantic were AWFUL.  At least it's not snowing??? 

Visited a college with our daughter on Friday (Carnegie-Mellon...not-so-humblebrag , though I have no idea how we'd pay for it if she gets in), got a text during the tour that our flight back had been cancelled, so we decided to stay overnight and get up at 4:20 rather than drive through the thunderstorm mess to get home.  For the record, May air travel sucks.

Didn't work out Friday or Saturday and got in a nice treadmill session yesterday.  Today was an hour + on the bike, main set 2 x (3 x 2.5' @ 115%, 5' RBI @ 40%), 8' RBS @ 50%.  Tough workout - last interval maxed out bike HR pretty much but got through it alive (-ish).

That's really good for your first brick workout.  I wouldn't push that run any farther - you're getting the feel for running after riding, not trying to emulate the race distance.

Riles the landscape work looks fantastic!

And thanks all for the thoughts and ideas.  

Regarding the Dopey and the HM...  The way RunDisney works, you don't need to qualify but you do need to submit proof of time so they can assign your corral.  The late corrals are terrible - all walkers, huge lines for character photos...you really want to get in the early ones.  There's a corral cutoff between having run a sub-2 hr HM and a 2-2:15.  For all of you here last year, you may recall my 'PR for most character photo stops' HM (that resulted in a 2:02). I can use that one, but it puts me in a later corral than my friend I'm running with (who registered me and I now owe $630).  

Mostly I'm almost in HM shape right now and really want a race to push me over the edge training wise.  But yeah, the heat down here and no one holds HMs after like April 15th, and not until like October 20th or later (need my proof of time by Oct 9).  So until my Dopey training plan starts in August, I have nothing on the calendar to work towards.  Maybe I can register for a bike gran fondo or something and at least pick the bike back up?  

Definitely sounds like the right time for a reset!  I'm headed there myself, though 2-4 is more like 1-3 for me right now, but 6-7 days a week instead of 4-5. 

Don't know about you guys, and this always sounds counter-intuitive to me, but I find the more I am working out, the less I want beer.  Like I'll go through a particularly difficult run and all I can think about is the beer reward at the end.  And by the time I get home, stretch and shower, all I want is water.  For me at least it does hep to be working out more often as it limits the number of multi-craft beer nights I have!

It's a thing!

https://www.verywellfit.com/races-to-run-at-night-4146450

I would love this!!!!!